From: Rolf Veen <rolf.veen@helide.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Categories
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 09:30:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EE437A1.10805@helide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306061835.52352.pauldv@gentoo.org>
Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> Unfortunately CVS does not work well with symlinks, so this is not
> really an option.
Not unavoidable. Let a script and a descriptor combination
reconstruct the whole hierarchy, i.e., ebuild the categories.
Starting from a descriptor in XML (for example), you could ebuild
a symlink hierarchy, or you could choose other backends too, such
as a database (in a distant future).
Or you could even include categories in each ebuild descriptor. Each
package says to which categories it belongs.
> Flat namespaces are actually slower in machine interaction. There are
> allready very many packages in portage currently. Thousands of
> entries in a directory is NOT fun to look at, or to search for a
> computer (albeight doable).
Examples of what I'm proposing are Sourceforge and Freshmeat. Both
use flat namespaces, and on top of that a search engine and a complex
category structure. And they manage a lot of entries ! Sourceforge
solves the directory problem in the form /g/ge/gentoo; that can be
handled transparently by the tools.
Cheers / Groeten.
Rolf.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-03 18:01 [gentoo-dev] Categories Sebastian Werner
2003-06-04 0:32 ` George Shapovalov
2003-06-04 14:23 ` Rolf Veen
2003-06-06 16:35 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-06-09 7:30 ` Rolf Veen [this message]
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